Sources and Further Reading

All photographs by author unless otherwise noted.

BeltLine Atlanta Connected.  http://www.beltline.org/BeltLineBasics/SimilarProjectsWorldwide/tabid/3224/Default.aspx (Accessed November, 2009).

Benton-Short, Lisa, and John Rennie Short.  Cities and Nature.  Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City.  New York: Routledge, 2008. 

Carpe Berlin.  http://www.carpeberlin.com/english/web/new-single-e/article/natur-park-suedgelaende/ (Accessed November, 2009).

Chamberlain, Lisa.  "Open Space Overhead."  Planning: March 2006, Vol. 72 Issue 3, 10-11.

Darke, Rick.  The Encyclopedia of Grasses for Livable Landscapes.  Portland, Oregon: Timber Press, Inc., 2007.

Davis, Dave ed.  "Livable Communities and Urban Forests."  Local Government Commission.  Sacramento.  www.lgc.org.  (Accessed October, 2009)

Detroit Riverfront Conservancy.  http://www.detroitriverfront.org/ (Accessed October, 2009).

Flink, Charles A. and Robert M. Searns.  Greenways: A Guide to Planning, Design and Development. Washington, D.C.: The Conservation Fund, 1993.

France, Robert L. Handbook of Regenerative Landscape Design: Integrative Studies in Water Management and Land Development. Boca Raton: CRC Press, 2008. 

Friends of the High Line.  2009.  http://www.thehighline.org/  (Accessed October, 2009).

Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail. 2009.  http://www.bloomingdaletrail.org/  (Accessed October, 2009).

Gisolfi, Peter.  "Accidental Parks." Landscape Architecture.  August 2007, Volume 97, No 8.

Greenways Initiative: Planning for Detroit's Rail-Trails.  Rails-to-Trails Conservancy, October 2002.  

Hellmund, Paul Cawood and Daniel Somers Smith. Designing Greenways: Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People.  Washington, D.C.: Island Press, 2006.  

Hellmund, Paul Cawood and Daniel Somers Smith. Ecology of Greenways. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993.  

Holden, Robert. New Landscape Design.  Burlington: Architectural Press, 2003.

Houston, Jr., Lawrence O.  "Urban Green Links."  Urban Land.  August 2008, Volume 76, No. 8. 

Jones, Gareth Lovett. Railway Walks: Exploring Disused Railways.  London: David & Charles, 1980. 

Jongman, Rob and Gloria Pungetti.  Ecological Networks and  Greenways: Concept, Design, Implementation. Cambridge U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 2004. 

Karlenzig, Warren, Frank Marquardt, et al.  How Green is Your City?  Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2007.

Karr, Ronald Dale. Lost Railroads of New England. New England Rail Heritage Series. Pepperell: Branch Line Press, 1989. 

Keil, Andreas. "Use and Perception of Post-Industrial Urban Landscapes in the Ruhr."  Institute of Geography and Didactics of Geography, University of Dortmund. Wild Urban Woodlands. 

Kemp, Roger L.  Cities and Nature: A Handbook for Renewal.  "New York City's Old Railroad Tracks Become Hidden Garden."  Jefferson NC: Asher Price, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2004.

Kolb, Jaffer. "The High Line Parkland Project Paves the Way for a New Kind of Urbanism in the U.S."  The Architectural Review.September, 2009.  Vol. 226, No.1351, 29-30.

Koski, P.S. "Road and Rilway Verges Serve as Dispersal  Corridors for Grassland Plants.  Landscape Ecology, 2001. Vol. 16, No. 7, 659-666.

Kowarik, Ingo and Andreas Langer. "Natur-Park Sudgelande: Linking Conservation and Recreation in an Abandoned Rail Yard in Berlin." Wild Urban Woodlands. Berlin: Springer, 2005.

Kowarik, Ingo and Stefan Korner, editors. "New Perspectives for Urban Forestry." Wild Urban Woodlands. Berlin: Springer, 2005.

Labaree, Jonathan M.  "How Greenways Work: A Handbook on Ecology."   National Park Service Rivers and Trails Conservation Assistance Program and QLF/Atlantic Center for the Environment, 1997.

Little, Charles E.  Greenways for America.  The Johns Hopkins University Press.  Baltimore: 1990.

Marzluff, John M. and Eric shulenberger, et al.  Urban Ecology: An International Perspective on the Interaction Between Humans and Nature.  Seattle: Springer, 2008.

Nature Park Südgelände.  http://www.bi-suedgelaende.de/html/english.html  (Accessed November, 2009).

Rahman, Hashim.  "High Line Preservation in Question-Again."  Planning: February, 2009.  Vol. 75,  Iss. 2, 1. 

Ranta, Pertti. "The Importance of Traffic Corridors as Urban Habitats for Plants in Finland."  Urban Ecosystems.  Vol. 2, No. 11, 149-159.

Reading Viaduct Project.  http://www.readingviaduct.org/gallery.html (Accessed November, 2009)

Ryan, Karen-Lee. Trails for the Twenty-First Century: Planning, Design, and Management for Multi-Use Trails.  Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1993.

Schwieterman, Joseph.  "Boxcar Blues."  Planning.  May 2006 Vol. 72, No. 5.

Sternfeld, Joel.  Walking the High Line.  Steidl: Gottingen, 2001.

Vogel, Stephen. "Detroit [Re]Turns to Nature." Handbook for Regenerative Landscape Design. 

Wheater, C. Philip. Urban Habitats. Habitat Guides. New York: Routledge, 1999.